4Compute Services: AWS EC2 Instances
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or the moniker EC2, is a huge topic. The basic EC2 documentation from AWS is currently over a couple of thousand pages because every cloud service AWS offers is powered by some form of compute service, whether it is an instance providing the processing power for your application, a managed service such as the elastic block storage (EBS) storage arrays supporting block storage, or Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage; in the background, there’s always some manner of computer power running in the background.
Compute services are also a key component in auto scaling, load balancing services, and networking services. These are all important topics that are important enough ...
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